The achievement of data interoperability is more of a data and process issue than a technical system to system issue. The Data Interoperability Enabling Framework provides a comprehensive blueprint of the business community involvement, operational artifacts and mechanisms, and governance processes necessary to comprehensively but efficiently execute a data interoperability effort in a timely manner.

The challenge that many organizations face is harnessing the collective knowledge embedded across humans, documents, and systems to be able to achieve data interoperability. The Community of Interest (COI) is a solution to that challenge.

The Business Terminology Glossary is an effective approach to build and sustain a business terminology vocabulary that captures the definitions for the conceptual and operational terms commonly used in discussions and formal documents of a business domain.

The Integrated Data Dictionary ensures common data definitions and enables data from various physical sources to be harmonized for exchanging while allowing the individual organizations the freedom to design their applications to fit their situations. The approach encompasses both content and processes.

1972 - C languageDennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan at Bell Labs develop the C programming language from a predecessor language, named B. The UNIX operating system was the first major program written in C.